4 STRIKE TALK 1: 5krU 41P, :43 t t BALMY High -- 68° Low-47° See Today for details See Editorial Page Latest Deadline in the State Vol. LXXXVI1, No. 29 Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, October 12, 1976 Ten Cents I Eight Pages IF'YCGUSfEE '&S W6'PE}T CALL VtAIY r Mao's others widow, 3 arrested A- Council quickie The Ann Arbor City Council last night held what may have been their shortest session in modern history - a 60-second blitz of public hearings in which no one came forward to speak. Democratic Mayor Albert Wheeler decided not to attend, and the meeting was chaired by Mayor Pro Tem Louis Belcher (R-Fifth Ward). As Belcher declared the meeting adjourned, Third Ward Republican Ron- ald Trowbridge quipped: "See how efficient these Republicans are?" 0 Self-inflicted nound The Ann Arbor police have determined that South Quad resident John Oliver died by his own hand. Oliver was found dead in his locked room last Friday. According to Detective Jerry Wright, "There is no reason for us to believe that thee wound was not self-inflicted", thereby ruling out a murder investigation. The medical examiner's report said that the body had been in the room for two to four days and found no evi- dence of drugs in his system. The police also said that Oliver was receiving "professional" help at the time of his death and that he bought a shot- gun (the weapon he used) early last week. Happenings .. . .. . start at noon today on the Diag, where Democratic U. S. Senate candidate Don Riegle speaks . . . from noon to 1:30 the Center for Con- tinuing Education of Women, 328 Thompson, holds a brown-bag luncheon for women who have re- cently returned to school called "Re-entry '76." Beverages will be provided. All interested men and women are welcome . . . Also at noon Bar- bara Fuller, director of the Interfaith Council for Peace, speaks on "Vietnam After the War," at the International Center, 603 E. Madison. You can buy lunch there for 75 cents . . . The Reading and Learning Skills Center is accepting applications until Oct. 25 for an experimental p)ram using bio-feedback-assisted relaxation traini for the re- duction of test anxiety, which you should all know something about. If you're a sophomore or above, you can call 764-9481 for more information. Representatives from the School of Business Ad- ministration visit Bursley Hall's East Lounge at 7:30 to discuss BBA and MBA requirements . Prof. Ali Mazrui lectures on "Nationalists and Statesmen from Nkrumah and DeGaulle to Ny- erere and Kissinger, at 7:30 in MLB Lecture Rm. 1 . .. Films on "The Force of Gravity and "Fluids in Weightlessness" highlight the latest installment of the Astronomical Film Festival, at 8 p.m. in MLB Aud. 3. A Two peas in a podl Former Texas Gov. John Connally is defending Earl Butz's racist remarks about blacks and cri- ticizing Jimmy Carter for "more offensive" com- ments in his interview with Playboy magazine. In the.interview, Carter admitted 'having "committed adultery in my heart many times." Connally, in Kansas City Sunday, downplayed the furor over Butz's comment, which slurred blacks in sexual and scatological terms. "We all tell 'em (racial jokes)," said Connally. "Everybody tells jokes on the blacks, and so the mere telling of a joke on a nationality or a racist group doesn't disturb me." Turkeys over Texas Gentlemen, start your turkeys" was all Ruby Begonia and Paycheck needed to hear. With that they, began a frenzied foot and air race Sunday to decide the winner of this year's Traveling Turkey Trophy of Tumultuous Triumph, in Cuero, Tex. When the feathers settled at the end of the 150- yard contest Ruby had the fastest time, but Pay- check won the six-foot trophy. Ruby was the Texas entry, and she failed to overcome a time loss she suffered against Paycheck during the first leg of their race last month at Worthington, Minn. After Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-Tex), kind of a turkey him- self, shouted "start your turkeys" the birds were airborne for most of the race before more than 3,000 persons lining the town's main street. Cuero, in fact, bills itself as the Turkey Capital of the worlds-a title also claimed by Worthington. Sun- day's results evened the overall annual turkey race series at two victories apiece for the rival towns. Perplexing polls A poll released late last week by the Carter campaign organization shows the Georgia Demo- crat leading President Ford in his homestate by eight percentage points. The poll conducted by Patrick Caddell's Cambridge (Mass.) Survey Re- search has Carter leading Ford by 47 per cent to 39 per cent, with former Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy carrying 6 per cent, and former Geor- gia Governor Lester Maddox tallying a single per- centage point. A poll conducted by Market Opinion Research for The Detroit News, published Sunday, however, has Ford ahead by eight per cent, 47 to 39. Pick your poison. On the inside . . . Editorial Page offers Mark Greenwood, ex- nlorinR the differences between President Ford for al leged AP Photo Pumpkin pickin' October pumpkins may not be heavy to those of us in the m'usclebomnd set, but these two kids seem to be having quite a bit of trouble. These plump specimens are ready to be made into Halloween Jack-'o-Lanterns. FORD URGED TO RETORT GOP reb-ukes Carter, By The Associated Press President Ford met at length yesterday with a group of Re- publican political figures who urged him to retaliate against what they called distortions of truth and derogatory attacks on Ford by Jimmy Carter. Earlier, the President directly accused his Democratic foe of "pure demagoguery." Goy. Dan Evans of Washing- ton said Carter was conducting a "mean, nasty little cam- paign" with too many distor- tions and misleading claims to count. Sen. Jacob Javits (R- N.Y.), said he had told Ford it was his' duty to warn the American people if he saw some- thing in Carter's position or character that might be "harm- ful to our- country" if Carter was elected. without any proof to support it, in terms even of his personal honesty." Carter, meanwhile, said ru- mors allegedly spread by Re- publicans that he had had an extramarital affair are "seamy ... distasteful" and "there is no truth to the allegations." A spokesperson for Ford's campaign committee acknowl- edged that it had received a memo containing such rumors from a volunteer in Georgia but had discarded it, and the committee had no involvement in the spreading of any such story. THE RUMOR was reported by columnist Jack Anderson on the ABC-TV program, "Good Morn- ing America," where he claim- ed that "Ford's campaign aides have been searching Jimmy Carter's past for a sex scari- dal," and that GOP aides had supplied him with the names of five women. Anderson said he had checked the information and found no truth to it, but received calls from several other reporters who had heard about his in- vestigation. "The only people who knew I had the allegation about Carter's romances were the Ford aides who planted them with me." Carter said he had learned of the rumors during the week- end and that several newspa- pers, as well as Anderson, had been given the information by "Republicans," but did not pub- lish it. NEITHER CARTER nor his aides named any Republicans as being responsible. Press secre- tary Jody Powell said report- ers had indicated to him that the rumor came from "highly- placed Republican officials," but gave him no names. Anderson said last night that he had gotten the rumor from four sources on the staff of the President Ford Committee, three of whom worked for the chief press spokesman, William Greener. Greener said he had ques- tioned those on his staff who have contact with the press, and all denied distributing the ru- mor. "Speaking for the top peo- ple of the committee, I abso- See GOP, Page 2 PEKING (Reuter) - her of the Party Standing Com- Chairman Mao Tse-Tung's mittee and was often stalked of widow, Chiang Ching, and as a likely future premier. If the arrests are confirmed three other top Chinese it means the Chinese leader- leaders have been arrested ship has been purged of all its and accused of plotting a leftists radicals. coup d'etat, sources said For two days rumors have yesterday. swept Peking that the radicals An official C h i n ese have been purged. spokesman said he had "no SINCE SATURDAY wallpost- comment." ers have appeared proclaiming Premier Hua Kuo-Feng as SOURCES told Reuters that Chairman of the Communist Chinese officials have been pri- vately briefed on the arrest of ChiangrChing andthreeother memerlso-ca "Shanghai Mafia" - 'Wang lung-Wen, Chang Chun-Chiao and Yao Wen-Yuan. threatens All four are leftist radical members of the Politburo who first came to political promi- DETROIT O) - Chances f nence in Shanghai, China's Ford Motor Co: strike were c most populols city, contract settlement faced reje Wang Hung-Wen, about 40, is Workers' skilled tradesmen. a vice chairman of the Com- on skaders trveesien munist Party and until last year Union leaders have given th was considered the prime can- the new three-year accord even didate to succeed Mao. Yao is production workers at the No. 2 the country's chief propagan- "THERE'S NO question it'll dist, a former journalist who ficial conceded after early re helped spark off the Cultural down to proposed pact by a nar Revolution. it will be approved, but the ou MOST nowerful of the four is added. Chiang Chun-Chiao, a vice pre- With results in from eight o mier and the Army's political was 2,500 for rejection and 2,06 commissar. He is also a mem- person said. 'U' rej ects Cal for, arbitration By KEN PARSIGIAN The University Administration yesterday formally rejected the Graduate Employe Organization's (GEO) offer of binding arbi- tration as a means of settling their contract dispute. If the University had accepted the plan, an independent arbi- trator acceptable to both sides would have been hired. He or she would then have heard arguments from GEO and the University, before handing down an irreversible compromise decision. "WE FEEL that it would be unwise to bring a third party into this matter," said Chief University Bargainer John Forsyth. "We have no way of knowing what an arbitrator might decide to do," he added. "The arbitrator may say that 'in order to avoid a strike, I'rfi going to split it down the middle' . . . we just couldn't do it that way." GEO Preident Dloug Moran was disturbed by the decision, and did not forsee a bright future. "They appear to be unwilling to seriously bargain with us, and they are unwilling to call in an unbiased third party to decide See OFFER, Page 8 cou p Party in succession to Mao, who died on September 9. Two senior officials here con- firmed Hua's appointment but mysteriously there has been no formal announcement. In an at- mosphere of gathering crisis, -slogans appeared Sunday call- ing on the populace to support the army. Diplomats believe that Hua, a middle-of-the-road politician, could be sure of considerable military backing in any power See CHINESE, Page 8 rbor's veto Ford pact or a quick end to the 28-day-old louded yesterday as a tentative ction by rebellious United Auto e 25,000 tradesmen veto rights on if a majority of the 145,000 UAW auto maker ratify'the agreement. 1 be a close vote," one union of- turns showed tradesmen turning rrow margin. "We remain hopeful utcome is uncertain," the official f 0 99 skilled trades units, the tally for ratification, a AUW spokes- The vote included tradesmen at the largest local in the coun- try, Local 600 at the Rouge complex in suburban Dearborn. The skilled workers there re- jected the accord, 2,269-1,703. The local represents more than a quarter of the' UAW trades- rien at 102 Ford plants across the country. BALLOTING at UAW Ford locals in 22 states will not be completed until this evening. Union officials said voting by production workers was run- ningabout 2 to 1 in favor of ratification. The final tally would be announced late to- night or early tomorrow, a un- ion spokesperson said. Highlights of the new agree- ment include seven' additional paid days off by 1979, a 3 per cent annual wagehike plus an- other 20 cents in the first year, and improved fringe benefits. Under the new package, the hol rly wage for the average as- sembly line worker would rise from the current $6.57 to $7.36 by 19?9 while the average tool- maker's hourly wage would. go See SKILLED, Page 2 v HE using about SAID CARTER had been "a rather derogatory tone the President's character, U Tgrounds crew makes clean sweep By DAVID HYDE Gazing across the pristine, picture postcard lawns of cen- tral campus, few casual stroll- ers can comprehend the magni- tude of the task facing the University Groundskeeping crew each and every day. Take, for example, the month of August alone. According to Kenneth Wanty, manager of the Grounds Maintenance Depart- ment, it took ten men working full time throughout August to collect some 4,000 cubic yards of garbage that if made into a wall "would be a bulk ten feet high, nine feet wide and fifth-four feet long - each day - and this is compacted." AND AS BIG as it is, refuse collection is only one of the 400 Lenient graduation po1oCV not S,0/ exploited By LANI JORDAN Literary school Assistant Dean Marion Jackson said yesterday that students have generally not taken advantage of recently loosened graduation require- ments. "You might say that this lib- eralization comes at a time when students are looking for to 500 jobs performed by the Grounds Department each year. The department also maintains the grounds irrigation system, trims trees, removes snow, mows lawns, prunes shrubs and plants flowers. The department tends not oaly to Central Cam- pus but also North campus, the University Hospital, the-TV Cen- ter, the I.M. fields and several other areas. Despite this multitude of re- sponsibilities, litter collection re- mains the department's number one chore. Every morning, lit- ter is picked .up at 7:30 and all receptacles are emptied, a gargantuan job in itself. Apparently, refuse about cam- pus was more of a problem two or three years ago before the introduction of cement trash containers. Before, the contain- ers were smaller and few and far between. However, accord- ing to Robert Hanselmann, gen- eral foreman of the department, there has been a "real good re- sponse" from students in us- ing the larger containers. ANOTHER PROBLEM the de- partment has successfully elim- inated involved the removal of signs posted on trash cans. To alleviate the costly neces- sity of ripping down the signs, the department decided to in- stall kiosks as general posting areas. 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